Number of sitting days

4

40

Average length of a sitting day

10 hrs 11 mins

10 hrs 00 mins

Longest sitting day

11 hrs 19 mins
(7 September)

 13 hrs 00 mins
(25 March)

Shortest sitting day

09 hrs 15 mins
(8 September)

05 hrs 05 mins
(23 March)

Hours of sitting

40 hrs 46 mins

 400 hrs 06 mins

Business conducted in the Senate

• government business
• general business
  • including time spent on private senators' bills
    
• questions without notice
• urgency/MPI
• business of the Senate
• other
• adjournment debate

 17 hrs 20 mins
                        12 hrs 29 mins
02 hrs 27 mins
04 hrs 16 mins
02 hrs 02 mins
00 hrs 08 mins
00 hrs 33 mins
03 hrs 58 mins

167 hrs 23 mins
                                                            111 hrs 36 mins
            17 hrs 59 mins
                         41 hrs 38 mins
            22 hrs 45 mins
05 hrs 52 mins
            13 hrs 19 mins
                       37 hrs 33 mins

Questions placed on notice

24*

1085**

Questions without notice (including supplementary questions)

• Question time held on:

120

4 sitting days

1290

39 sitting days

Average daily number of questions without notice

30.0

33.1

26

380

Petitions presented

1

12

Signatories to petitions

110

50 747

Divisions

9

177

* Questions placed on notice from 21 August to 10 September 2015, inclusive

** Questions placed on notice from 5 December 2014 to 10 September 2015, inclusive

Introduced in the Senate

• government bills
• private senators' bills

0
                        0

4
17

Received from the House of Representatives - government bills

4

117

 0

 0

Passed in the Senate

6

134

Bills negatived

1

9

Bills exempted from the 'cut-off'

3

23

Bills referred to committees (13 bills referred re time critical motion)

3

72